I know this week is all but totally consumed with Final Four talk (and with good reason, wowoooowowowooooo!), but the news of UCF hiring Donnie Jones away from Marshall is still relatively decently sized news.

First, Donnie Jones is a pretty darn good coach, so UCF made a good hire.  Second, Jones and his wife are both WV natives, so this was no small coup to lure him away from Huntington.  And third -- and this is the most important -- they gave him a bunch of money; $800k per year, to be exact, which was more than double he was making at Marshall.  UCF is also paying its football coach, George O'Leary, over $1 million per year.  And I haven't even yet mentioned they've opened two essentially new facilities (a brand new football stadium and a totally renovated basketball arena) in the last three years.  That, my friends, is a big time commitment to athletics.  It's a big enough commitment in my mind to warrant an invitation to the Big East.

UCF brings a few other things to the table, as well.  Their location in a major city like Orlando is a big plus.  The proximity to USF is another positive contributing factor.  All of these combine to make UCF a very sexy pick for conference expansion, at least as far as the Big East is concerned.

For the longest time, I was a proponent of ECU as the 9th member, and I don't think ECU has done anything to move down in the pecking order.  I just think UCF has done everything right to move up. They're prospects long-term in basketball are certainly much brighter (ECU is consistently terrible), and a new stadium and Florida recruiting bode well for UCF football.

As of right now, I have to say, they're the leaders in the clubhouse.

Charley West was in Lexington, KY today for "work." He took time out of his busy schedule to snap this picture. Is that all he did, or is this the start of a diabolical plan to help WVU defeat UK?

Stay tuned...

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For me, this is one of the most annoying days of the year.  The re-tards from western Kentucky come up I-64 thinking they are big shots.  They walk around Charleston with their ugly green shirts barely covering their big fat bellies and look like they have not shaved in weeks, and that is the women. They are nasty.

Anyway, for those of you watching the game use the comment section below to insult Marshall and comment during the game.

Let's GOOOO Mountaineers!!

OK, so we all knew going in that the Gator Bowl would be mostly a circus.  Bobby Bowden this, Bobby Bowden that.  Not only did the man cure cancer, he found a way to win 800+ football games in his spare time, nevermind that his total win tally is retreating with NCAA sanctions.

Like I said, we all knew it was going to be all about Bobby.  But really, Sir Bowden, did you need to start the victory parade in the middle of the third quarter?  I'm exaggerating, of course, but not by a ton.  With two minutes left in the game, Bowden did his best to look like he was campaigning for future office: shaking hands, kissing babies, and dry humping Deion Sanders.

I don't care how great a career you've had, can you do us a favor and wait until the end of the game before you start giving your hall of fame speech?  Even Bill Stewart looked pissed, only stopping to shake hands and share recipes  with Bowden at midfield for a season-low 8 seconds.  And if you've managed to piss Stew off, you know you've fucked up mightily.

Although, it seemed pretty clear that Bowden didn't give a shit, which makes him a, you guessed it, penis.

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West Virginia fans were over "the school down south" the second that game ended.  The school down south, on the other hand, is still not over the fact that they, yet again, got embarrassed by the Mountaineers. 

Marshall's season ended with a sound defeat at the hand of the Mountaineers.  Prime example of this fact is Saturday's game at "The Joan" brought in an eye popping 18,800 "fans."  Rumor out of Huntington, however, is that there were actually only 9,400 fans in the stands, but everyone was so fat they had to be counted as two people.

So why am I talking about Marshall if we were over them a few weeks back?  Well, my friends, Chuck Landon is at it again, and I just could not let his idiocy continue....

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Sorry, I couldn't wait til tomorrow to post this one.

For all the Auburn fans that have taken it upon themselves to visit the site and make their opinions of Mountaineer football known, I put together a handy guide for this Saturday's upcoming game.  Just a refresher course in recent history, if you will.  Enjoy!

This happened last year:

...and this happened last year...

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...oh, and I'm pretty sure this happened last year, too...

...So, the next time you decide to talk shit about anything, please remember that we own you.  No ifs, ands, or buts about it.

OWNED...  WVU 34 aubarn 17.